Line drawing & masking effects - how to's

I am looking for some opinions on the best way to do the effects on the left side of this page - the way the man is brought in (looks like he is drawn) then filled in (as vector art) and then the line moves over him to bring him in as a photo.

I have some ideas of how to do this -
shape tweens for the outline drawing and then masks to make the transition into the raster art.

Does anyone think or know there is a better way?

<b>The page </b> http://www.tommyshanesteiner.com/news.htm

thanks
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Either a shape tween, or a painstaking frame by frame animation with a mask - I’ve done that before…

yeah I am sure it will be time consuming…
looks so cool though

thanks for the input…

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